After Pakistan’s cricket team victory by 10 wickets over the Indian team in T20 Worldcup 2021, the chaos has been heightened within India. Indian Social media has been flooded with the trending tweets of ‘Ghaddar’ and ‘Indian Muslims’.
The two countries have the greatest rivalries, encountering several factors for their rising tensions, either it’s New Delhi blaming Islamabad for militant attacks in the country or territorial dispute of the Kashmir issue.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Sheikh Rasheed gave a statement, “Pakistan triumph against India is victory of Islam and Muslims throughout the world rejoices.”
Whereas, Pakistan Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain linked the matter to the Kashmir issue by tweeting,” The celebrations in Kashmir after the defeat of the cricket team in India should be enough to open the eyes of Modi.”
However, yesterday’s Pakistan victory resulted in intolerance within India. It was not only an intense passion for the game from two nations but the issue of national identity that was wrapped into cricket fortunes.
Resultantly, a storm of social media abuses was fired at Indian bowler Mohammed Shami, the only Muslim player of team India. Moreover, the Indian leaders have had already called the team to boycott the game before the match, but efforts got insane. However, after the defeat of the Indian cricket team, violence against Muslims and Kashmiris in India has been reported in various parts of the country.
Author: Qurratulain Tahir